Re: Autoconf with Debian patches

[Francois-Xavier Le Bail via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Francois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail () orange fr>
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> Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 10:44:43 +0100
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> On 06/01/2023 23:49, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers wrote:
> > An alternative would be *not* to keep the generated configure script in the repository (that's what Wireshark ended 
> > up doing before it ceased to use autoconf/automake), and generate it as part of the release-build process, which we 
> > would do on a machine on which Debian autoconf was installed.
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> Or don't generate it and have the build process be:
> ./autogen.sh && ./configure && ...
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> > That requires that developers have autoconf installed if they're not going to be using CMake, but there are already 
> > tools they need installed (a C compiler, make, Flex, Bison/Berkeley YACC, ...) so I don't see that as a problem.
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> > It also means that configure.ac and aclocal.m4 would have to work with various sufficiently-recent versions of 
> > autoconf.
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> FYI, test for tcpslice here:
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpslice/pull/16
> Some warnings like The macro `XXX' is obsolete.
> (Some tests are with autoconf version 2.71)
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